What are your some of the most hated tropes?

[Fallen_Void]

Personally I don't really 'Hate' any tropes, even cliches (they have their own charm) but I know some tropes are hated, I just want know about some. Actually I do dislike one trope 'Smut'

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Killing intent in Japanese works, systems, misunderstandings.

 

[laccoff_mawning]

Any trope involving Love triangles, Love squares, Love pentagons, Love hexagons, Love heptagons, Love octagons, love nonagons, love decagons...

The "I'm a completely useless person until I'm rejected and cast aside, then I become OP" trope.

The "man surpassing the gods" trope.

Those are all I can think of for now.

 

[SternenklarenRitter]

I really don't like the "Return to Mundania" ending trope that used to be the norm in portal fantasy. The MC would put in tireless effort to train their mystical yuusha powers, fight endless difficult battles, and be forced to make harsh decisions before they manage to save the foreign world. And then finally they can go home. But going home is not only a one way trip, they can't use their fantastic cosmic powers anymore either. I mean seriously, how is that fair that the MC goes back to wimpy normal human? And there is nobody in their repatriated world who would believe them if they tried to recount the nightmares they lived through. That is really such appalling treatment for someone who really should be considered a military veteran. I suspect that at least some of the authors hated such endings too, but were coerced by their editors to make the story more palatable to religious types who were afraid of witchcraft.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

I hate the trope where they say they will live a slow life in the next life but end up overworking again and being everyone's servant.

 

[Xcalibur_Xc]

Does LitRPG counts? Repetitive, almost non-existent story, 90% of the story is stats, grinding and inventory management. Easy to add plot armor thanks to the system and skills. You just can't argue with LitRPG authors, if you pick a pothole, they will fix it alright, how? SYSTEM and more plot armor. ??Just my personal opinion. No offense.

 

[BearlyAlive]

Harems. Unless it's inspired by real-world harems, where it's pretty much a race to bear an heir, and behind closed doors it's all cloak & dagger, worse clique politics than CN novel murder-hobo sects, and pretty much the worst of all of humanity squeezed into close proximity.

Personal Systems. I can tolerate systems most of the time unless it's a 'grind log' novel that's just numbers go brrrr. But those "and I'm the only one with a system" is just the laziest form of deus ex machina. Why not write a novel about MC getting carried by 'insert random weird fetish' harem members instead, that's actually less lazy writing than 'a system did it'.

Overly aggressive or passive characters. Unless their arc is about tipping the melting point or overcoming 'Chinese MC: Urge to kill rising-Syndrome', then every character has a point where they either lose it or mellow out. Being a saint among saints or a rabid chihuahua with anger issues are both similiar stupid.

 

[Valmond]

Does LitRPG counts? Repetitive, almost non-existent story, 90% of the story is stats, grinding and inventory management. Easy to add plot armor thanks to the system and skills. You just can't argue with LitRPG authors, if you pick a pothole, they will fix it alright, how? SYSTEM and more plot armor. ??Just my personal opinion. No offense.

Even amongst games, I always really hated inventory management aside from very few games. And that is only if the gameplay and story is next level stuff. ?

Much of the time, I don’t bother with inventory stuff. Until I notice I am hitting sort of a hard wall, and even then I am too stubborn. ?

Though, yeah. Some games go way too insane on that stuff.

 

[TASTYLEADPAINT]

Not sure its a trope but I hate it when evil characters try to justify the messed up stuff they did.

"Oh no you see. I had to boil those elven children alive because elves abused me in school" or something like that. Yeah what they did was messed up but you still boiled children alive. If your gonna make an evil character let them own it.

 

[Alfir]

Killing intent in Japanese works, systems, misunderstandings.

So it's fine in other works? Like CN? KN? And other work?? A curious development.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

So it's fine in other works? Like CN? KN? And other work?? A curious development.

They are usually depicted somewhat differently there. But when depection of killing intent in KR or CN work aligns with one of JP, I hate it as well.

 

[Scaletalon]

For me, it's when two characters who clearly have a romantic relationship are about to have a kiss and then the side character (often the goofy one) comes in and interrupts it.
Saying that they have to go on some mission or something. It's just something that irks me most of the time.

 

[DaelyxLenAuphydas]

Robots spontaneously turning against their creators constantly for no damn reason

Transhumanists/cloning/bioandroids always being exclusively evil guys. Seriously, why does *everyone* with a bioscience degree end up on the villain side? Usually with a helping of body horror to go with it.

On a similar note, every biomechanical thing taking inspiration from H.R. Giger and aiming more for body horror than anything else. I really want more pretty and elegant biomechanical technology, not just meat moss everywhere.

Those are all sci-fi tropes... As far as fantasy goes. I hate when magic is treated as technology since, why even bother making it fantasy at that point?

Magic fading away from a world or being eclipsed by technology also grinds my gears.

Those are all world tropes, so I'll leave it off with a character trope. This might be somewhat hard to understand, but, a lot of shows and stories seem to have a designated "dunk on the protagonist" segment where everyone and their mother gives the protagonist shit for how they deal with problems. Often the protagonist themself actively contributes to this by suddenly doing things in a really stupid way just to give other characters ammunition against them. Really annoying to me.

Actually now that I think about it, idiot protagonists are annoying too. I get why they're there, its so that they can ask questions that the reader wants to know the answer to also, and possibly also to make them more of an underdog in a way that doesnt actually impact their abilities too much. But I find it pretty stale, I'm less invested in that kind of character.

Oh oh oh! this one is more of a problem in anime and less so in written works, but, protagonists that just kinda stand for the status quo without any real ambition of their own. The kind who fight villains because of the risk of 'collateral damage' while never acknowledging why the villains are doing what they are, and who don't seem to have any greater stake in what happens to the world. I don't want to follow just a tool for the existing world order, nor someone who just reacts to other peoples actions. Give me some personal ambition!

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

I love strong female heroes when they're done right, but I despise the smug, smirking, effortlessly better than everyone else because the author says they are, mary sues that so many people think equals a strong female character these days.

 

[Poleg]

Personally I don't really 'Hate' any tropes, even cliches (they have their own charm) but I know some tropes are hated, I just want know about some. Actually I do dislike one trope 'Smut'

Your enemies are all over the top evil incompetent psychopaths that can move entire worlds according to their whim, but are also extremly pathetic.
This is the worst trope I have ever seen.

 

[BigBadBoi]

Church le bad trope(I've only seen this trope done good like a few times)
All of the shitty xianxiaslop tropes
Childhood friend loses trope
Misunderstandings that could've been easily resolved if the MC didn't have crippling autism
Getting kicked out and suddenly OP trope

 

[sand_spark]

Gender bender. You can only read so many hundred of them before it gets annoying, the ones where they actually wanted it are nice but a good 95%+ are upset with the change to some degree.

Whatever it's called where the mc is unreasonably pacifistic. Oh yeah sure the guy tried to murder me and my family 5 times..this week but we can't even report him to the guard because that would make his family look bad. I drop fics over this, i've dropped shows over this.

Recurring enemies that never actually get defeated. Whoopsie they escaped, whoopsie they were faking being dead, whoopsie they had a trans-dimensional escape portal.

Idiot plots. You know if everyone involved wasn't an idiot the whole story wouldn't have happened.

 

[expentio]

The Isekai protagonist is a psychopath who has no qualms about killing a person.
Protagonist doesn't behave like a human being.
Story shows clear political agenda.
Gender Bender that exists solely for the tag, but otherwise doesn't matter.
Gender Bender without body dysphoria, where MC directly starts partying.
Story got a girl on the cover, but is actually about a guy.
Story got girls on the cover, and MC is the guy far, far in the backside corner.
Story got girl on the cover who doesn't even matter In the story, while protagonist is some alpha male (seriously, I think someone should start posting covers with males, while the story is about some cute anime girl!)

 

[Kenjona]

Tropes I hate/but still read them anyway:
The "Every female I am kind to suddenly falls in love with me" though I have less than the Emotional Quotient (EQ) and looks of a random pile of .
Tsunderes some how winning in romance without changing their attitude, especially when they are not the hottest person going after the MC. Sadist/Masochistic MCs when the tag is not there.
The "You have a fiancé we never told you about trope", usually from years ago. Oh and it may be that it is several fiancé's that was arranged by the Grandparents on one side, Grandparents on the other side, Parents (Or both parents separately) and whoever is the head of the family. Never happens in real life even in cultures that have arranged marriages. You are informed who it is, and dates are arranged.

There is only one Genre/Trope I absolutely Hate: Incest, it sucked when the Greeks wrote about it. It sucks in stories now. Heck even mainstream media has it for MC's (GOT) and it personally sucks in it.

I am all right with most Xianxia tropes, including the "Do you know who my Clan/Daddy/Mommy/Uncle is" ones, granted it is overly used. But the one I despise is, "OH no you have been poisoned by X Aphrodisiac your gonna die unless you XXX someone".

Gender Benders are overdone and trite now days. Matter of fact have been since the 60's. Ones that are supposed to explore someone changing from one to another, or exploring what they think the other gender is seem to fall short more often then not. Especially when the gender bender does not run into the problems each gender uniquely has from the other and that the person has never experienced it themselves and as such gotten used to the issue.

 

[RainingFish]

I'm not a big fan of 'regreter' as I call it. Characters who come to regret turning the MC down. it's fine when the author doesn't make a big deal about it, but when you have multiple chapter worth of writing describing the regerter regretting, I don't enjoy it.

I don't like it when MCs are overly popular in terms of romantic interests. Having a few people like them over the story is fine, but some MC are just way to popular for my tastes.